Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh believes the mainstream media is covering up one the the biggest stories in decades — a “deep state” coup attempt against President Donald Trump.

On his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh claimed that special counselor Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election is “not a legitimate investigation.” Still, he said, most media outlets refuse to report what he called “the biggest story in generations,” even “bigger than Watergate.”

“We’ve had a suggestion that we aired earlier from a former CIA analyst who says that, in his estimation, Trump should just pardon everybody and end this just because there’s no ‘there’ there. There’s no crime. There was no collusion. Everything that’s being done is a trap,” Limbaugh said.

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“This whole thing — it really is, folks,” he explained. “The Trump dossier was written to cause just this. They wrote a phony and false document that was designed to be used by co-conspirators at the CIA and the Obama administration as legitimate intelligence that was earth-shattering in its consequences and needs to be pursued.”

The talk show host was referring to the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, an unverified document that made salacious claims about Trump.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Convention paid for the research that led to the dossier, and the FBI reportedly used the dossier to justify investigating the connections between Trump and Russia.

“It’s all BS,” Limbuagh said. “There’s not a shred of truth in it. But it’s the framework and the foundation, the basis for the investigation.”

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He continued, saying, “It’s nothing more than a trap. If you pardon everybody, then the investigation is over. And if you do this with a president explaining why he’s doing it and walk people through this — The danger, of course, is public opinion.”

The conservative radio show host noted that “the drive-by media has not reported much of what I just told you,” meaning that if Trump shuts down the Russia investigation, “it would be out of the blue to a lot of people.”

“This is not a legitimate investigation,” he said. “It’s not a legitimate premise. But it still has the power of the Justice Department behind it. This guy (Mueller) can still go to court and get indictments if he wants to impanel a grand jury. He can still lean on people to get plea agreements to avoid them going broke and having their families ruined. Even though the whole thing is a bogus trap.”

“It frosts me that this whole thing is bogus on a false premise, that it’s a pure trap, that there’s no collusion, and that everything happening to people here is process crimes — obstruction of justice or lying to investigators,” he added.

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“We have top FBI officials working for Hillary Clinton, the campaign loser. They are abusing their powers to try to find out garbage about an incoming Republican transition team,” he said.

“We have James Comey, the FBI director, exonerating Hillary Clinton of all crimes before even interviewing her. We have massive leaks from every branch of the government that are all lies.”

He then referred to Peter Strzok, the FBI agent removed Mueller’s investigative team due to possible pro-Clinton and anti-Trump bias. Strzok allegedly changed the language describing Clinton’s misuse of her email server from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless.”

“We have a guy who changed wording to a non-crime to protect Hillary, who is working on the investigative team of Trump,” Limbaugh said.

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He concluded by warning that this all comes “from every aspect of the executive branch, the deep state.”

Limbaugh said that due to the “bogus nature” of the Russia investigation, he is “waiting for a Woodward-Bernstein to come along and expose this for what it really is.”

“I think it’s the biggest story in generations,” he said. “I think it’s bigger than Watergate, and the drive-bys are sitting around ignoring it because they’re part of it. They really are — in this case — acting as opposition to the people. We have a corrupt bunch of Democrats who are attempting to overthrow a president. That is such a huge story. But they’re in on it. They’re helping. So they’re trying to cover that up.